[lug] ISOs from burned CDs?

[The Matt]

On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 12:37, Zan Lynx wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-11-05 at 12:34, The Matt wrote:
> > OK, folks, this is an odd question, but one which went through my mind. 
> > Now that Fedora is out, I am currently starting to suck down the ISOs
> > which I will then burn to CD.
> > 
> > But, that got me thinking, is there a way to reverse that process?  That
> > is, take my Yarrow-1 CD and get the ISO from it?  I assume it'd be some
> > mkisofs command on the mounted CD-R, but I never really thought about
> > it.
> 
> It's even easier than that.
> # dd if=/dev/cdrom of=fedora-1.iso bs=4096

Cool.  Might have to try it out.  I'm still trying to figure out why I
thought of doing that though...
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